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Ernst Michael Mangel (* 1800 in Karlsburg (then Hungary, today Alba Iulia in Romania), † January 13, 1887 in Athens ) was a musician, composer, philhellene and organizer of military music in the Kingdom of Greece .

Life

His origins, his youth, his musical training are in the dark. He went to Greece in 1823, where he joined Colonel Charles Nicolas Fabvier . Colonel Fabvier, who had taken over the construction of the Greek army on behalf of the Greek government, commissioned Ernst Mangel to set up a music corps. Ernst Lack introduced the clarinet to Greek music. From 1825 to 1827 the music corps was in Athens, which was enclosed by the Turks. In the same year Colonel Fabvier lost the supreme command of the Greek army and returned to Paris in 1828. Colonel Carl Wilhelm von Heideck took his place. After the liberation of Athens, he moved the music corps led by Ernst Mangel to the government capital Nauplion . In order to be able to marry a Greek woman, Ernst Mangel converted to the Greek Orthodox faith in 1834 and changed his first name to Michael. After his marriage, he left the Greek army. King Otto of Greece recalled Michael Mangle and gave him the post of military music inspector with the task of composing Greek military marches on the basis of Greek folk music or encouraging other composers to do so. From 1843 to 1855 Michael Mangle was also the director of the military music school in Athens, founded in 1843. In 1865 Michael Mangel retired.

Works

The music manuscripts of three triumph marches, dedicated to King Otto of Greece, can be found in the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

literature

• Konstantin Soter Kotsowilis: The Greeks enthusiasm of Bavaria under King Otto I . Munich 2007
• Emanuel Turczynski: Social and cultural history of Greece in the 19th century. From turning to Europe to the first modern Olympic Games . Mannheim and Möhnesee 2003